WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama assailed as "slice and dice" politics Geraldine Ferraro's assertion that he wouldn't be where he is in the presidential race if he weren't black.
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"Part of what I think Geraldine Ferraro is doing, and I respect the fact that she was a trailblazer, is to participate in the kind of slice and dice politics that's about race and about gender and about this and that, and that's what Americans are tired of because they recognize that when we divide ourselves in that way we can't solve problems," Obama said on NBC's "Today" show.
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"Reverse Racism" rears its ugly head via TampaBay.com
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"I was talking about historic candidacies and what I started off by saying (was that) if you go back to 1984 and look at my historic candidacy, which I had just talked about all these things, in 1984 if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would have never been chosen as a vice presidential candidate," Ferraro said on ABC's "Good Morning America." "It had nothing to do with my qualification."
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"Ferraro: Open Mouth, Insert Foot" via Rev. BigDumbChimp
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Ferraro said she has a 40-year history of opposing discrimination of all kinds, including race, and that she was outraged at criticism of her remarks by David Axelrod, Obama's chief media strategist, because he knows her and her record.
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"She's The Real Monster" via The Tome of Communism
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"David Axelrod, his campaign manager, has chose to spin this as a racist comment because everytime anybody makes a comment about race who is white — he did it with Bill Clinton, he was successful; he did it with (Pennsylvania governor and Clinton supporter) Ed Rendell, he was less successful; and he is certainly not going to be successful with me," Ferraro told CBS' "The Early Show." "He should have called me up ... He knows I'm not racist."
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"Oh! Give it up!" via Lawyers, Guns and Money
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Ferraro said she stands by her assertion that Obama's success in the Democratic campaign is due "in part" to his race.
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"Ferraro Defends Racism with Racism" via Liberal Avenger
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Obama, however, said that if someone in his campaign had suggested that Hillary Clinton "is where she is only because she is a woman" she would be offended.
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"It's Still a Tie" via This Space for Rent
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Clinton has said she disagrees with Ferraro's remarks. In an interview with The Associated Press, she said, "It's regrettable that any of our supporters — on both sides, because we both have this experience — say things that kind of veer off into the personal."
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"Memo to Liberals" via Too Sense
CACKLED SLUR
a poem by thepoetryman
O beautiful is the scrape of power’s envy…
As intolerance is to our dear white thrown.
The flutter of dreary words delights me…
In their exactness, progress is electrified.
Cackled slurs, vigorous demons they rouse…
Fetching deceit `round upon our drained lips.
O exquisite is the scrape of power’s envy…
Blind seraphs leading us to justice.
© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman
"Minced Garlic - Keith Olbermann Special Comment" via Minced Garlic
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"Ferraro Leaves Clinton Campaign" - Take the two polls
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